Chapter 85: This Isn't The End

At a guard’s announcement, somebody was making a heart-wrenching scream: her. ‘Reign Hrudnand Eclipsis,’ the guard had announced.

Hands were roughly shoving back down into her seat while she didn’t remember she had stood up. She would not back down without a fight. Her fist hit one vampire’s jaw. She dodged and struck. She was much faster and stronger than she had ever been, but all those came down to nothing against a group of vampires.

‘Please stop,’ murmured a voice in her head. ‘For me.’

“How insolent! You dare communicate with my daughter right under my nose!” Fragor roared inside and outside of her head.

“I’m not your daughter. Reign!” she raced to the doorway.

Nobles stood still as though nothing strange was happening; how eerie. They were under some sort of spell or mental manipulation, she realized, just like the crowd along the way. Despite the earlier voice, he had yet to enter. Her father was seething on the throne behind her.

Then he entered, wearing a wry smile. She